Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The fate of Twelve Kurdish environmental activists and members of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party, detained by the State Intelligence Bureau and the Intelligence Department of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) during the past few months, still remains uncertain. According to the family members of some of these detainees, Hossein Kamangar, Farhad Mohammadi, Homayoun Bahmani, Rashed...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network(KHRN); April 09,2019: Kurdish poet, Hossein Bagheri (known as Jakan Baran), was released on Apr 7, 2019 on a bail of 50 million Tomans. This Kurdish poet was arrested at his home in Ilam on March 19. He published a video about his hunger strike from the time he was arrested until Apr 2, 2019 and released on bail on his Instagram...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Two young women died in Kermanshah and Orumieh after committing suicide. KHRN has been informed that a young woman "Sh.Qadedri" from Kermanshah had committed suicide by hanging herself on Tuesday, Apr 2, 2019. She was married and originally from “Dodan", a village in the Boyangan of Paveh. According to one of her close relatives, the cause of her suicide was...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Two Kolbars from Baneh and Sardasht have been injured by shooting of Iranian border forces. KHRN has been informed that the border forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran opened fire at the caravan of Kolbars in the border area of Genav of Sardasht on March 31, 2019. This incident resulted in a 30-year-old Kolbar, Raouf Soleimani being wounded in...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Maghboleh Sakanvand, a Kurdish civilian from Mako who was detained three months ago, is still in prison. According to information obtained by KHRN, this young woman, who was a member of the opposition parties, was arrested after her return to Iran despite her family coordination with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) which was informed of her return prior her...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Sanandaj intelligence Office has banned Hassan Amini, a well-known clergyman in Kurdistan and the head of Imam Bokhara 'Religious School' of Sanandaj, in Kurdistan from travelling to Zahedan and attending the graduation ceremony of Dar-Alolum theology students in Zahedan "Per the Islamic jurisprudence and numerous principles of the Constitution including Principle 12, taking these measures against the Sunni clergies is...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Sanandaj intelligence Office has banned Kak Hashim Hossein Panahi, a well-known religious activist, in Kurdistan from travelling to Zahedan. "During a telephone call from the Kurdistan Intelligence Office, Professor Kak Hashim Hossein Panahi, a teacher at the Imam Bukhari Religious School of Sanandaj, was banned from participating at the graduation ceremony of Religious scholars in Zahedan. It is worth noting...

A 50 year old Kurdish Civilian, Karim Rasti from Sardosh of Marivan, was severely injured in a mine explosion at Doolebi and lost one leg. Parvin Zabihi, a civilian activist in Marivan, shared a post on her Facebook page stating that "this is a catastrophe which does not end in the border areas, and dozens of people are traumatised or lose their life as a...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The border forces at Shooshme checkpoint in the city of Paveh targeted a group of Kolbars, which resulted in a Kolbar "Ibrahim Khoshnood" being wounded in his leg. Ibrahim Khoshnood, from the village of Hajij and resident of Paveh, has been taken to one of the medical centres of Kermanshah due to the severity of his injuries.